StepLock: Walk to Unlock

Put your phone down with steps, not willpower.

StepLock locks the apps that pull you in and ties them to one thing: the steps you take today. Every app gets its own step count. Reach it, and that app opens until midnight. No minutes to spend, no countdown, no "5 more minutes" button.

HOW IT WORKS
1. Pick the apps you want locked.
2. Give each one a step price — Instagram 4,000, TikTok 8,000, games 12,000.
3. Walk. An app unlocks on its own the moment you pass its number, and stays open for the rest of the day.

Everything resets at midnight, so tomorrow you pay the price again.

ONE RULE, NO LOOPHOLES
• You can change an app's price whenever you like — but only upward. Any number below the steps you have already taken never appears in the list, so there is no lowering your way out of a lock.
• Once an app opens, its price is fixed for that day.
• Any setting that would change today's outcome takes effect tomorrow.

ON THE MAIN SCREEN
• The day's ring: your steps, your goal and how far each app still is, at a glance.
• Your locked list: what has opened, and how many steps the rest need.
• Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets — check your steps without opening the app.
• History: a five-week chart, the days you hit your goal, and your streak.
• Notifications when an app unlocks, and an evening nudge if your goal is still short.
• English and Turkish, light and dark.

PRIVACY
StepLock has no server. Your step count comes from Apple Health with read-only access and never leaves your device. The apps you choose are stored as Apple's own opaque Screen Time tokens — StepLock cannot see which apps you locked. No analytics, no ads, no account, no data collection.

AN HONEST NOTE
StepLock is not a prison. Remove an app from the list and it is free immediately — you should not be stuck all day with something you added by mistake. The point is not to make escape impossible, but to put a few seconds of friction in front of that thoughtless first tap. Most days, that is enough.

Completely free. No in-app purchases, no subscription, no ads.

REQUIREMENTS
iPhone running iOS 18 or later. Health permission to read your steps, and Screen Time (Family Controls) permission to lock apps.